tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post6195405487193995541..comments2018-02-21T20:20:26.444-08:00Comments on Google Operating System: Google UniversityAlex Chituhttps://plus.google.com/115880905881518206826noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-20282324677481938722018-02-07T07:29:16.232-08:002018-02-07T07:29:16.232-08:00I want to write an open letter for google too. you...I want to write an open letter for google too. you should check this <a href="https://persuasivepapers.com/widespread-topics-for-persuasive-essay/" rel="nofollow">persuasive essay topics</a> and tell me what do you like most.Alexishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04371683143928257516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-12016560815695217562012-03-01T07:17:18.997-08:002012-03-01T07:17:18.997-08:00Starbucks ain&#39;t GoogleStarbucks ain&#39;t GoogleJack Breslerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13253808718836395820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-930786308146846772011-09-14T14:57:53.604-07:002011-09-14T14:57:53.604-07:00sed &quot;s/google/amazon/gi&quot;
sed &quot;s/goo...sed &quot;s/google/amazon/gi&quot;<br />sed &quot;s/google/starbucks/gi&quot;<br />sed &quot;s/google/any_other_company/gi&quot;<br /><br />Google needs good engineers. Google already has good engineers, but will always need more of them.<br /><br />Ergo - Google needs people that know the basics, coming from the usual universities with either bachelor degrees or master degrees. <br /><br />However, these new people do not have all the knowledge about search algorithms, Linux clusters, high availability clusters....<br /><br />Ergo - Google always needs to add specializations on top of the existing materials.<br /><br />Question - would other companies benefit from an engineer trained in these subjects. Most often yes, however, most often Google will not be happy to train somebody just to see him go somewhere else...... <br /><br />Well, maybe if they would have a business model based on Open Source, allowing them to still make money while sharing their knowledge.... Ooops, wait, maybe they already have.....<br /><br />Well today we see more and more totally unrelated domains embracing an Open Source model. The academic domain was always modeled similar to open source software. We even see CIA using &quot;open sourced intelligence&quot;....Are they all really that similar? If the answer is even remotely closed to yes, expect significant changes in the way we gain our knowledge and in the way we get accredited for our knowledge.<br /><br />Now, as you can see, I am enamored of Open Source as we see it in GPL software and as you see it in Wikipedia. Should this be called rather Open Knowledge? Should it require anybody getting the knowledge to further help spreading it further (the viral quality of GPL)? Different people will come with different answers, but I strongly believe we need to all admit the future can only be in this direction.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-17821380043058997032011-08-24T12:49:58.407-07:002011-08-24T12:49:58.407-07:00This is not a good idea for two reasons that shoul...This is not a good idea for two reasons that should be obvious. <br /><br />First, professors need institutions and support to do their research and stay current. Without the financial support and infrastructure of universities, they will not be able to do their jobs in the first place, let alone expand their subject areas. The system advocated here would simply disseminating outdated work much like a second hand store sells clothes. That&#39;s not the kind of education I want my kids to have.<br /><br />Second, curriculum design is key. Any thoughtful teacher or professor designs their students&#39; learning experience in a way that brings them coherently into the crux of the material. Without guidance, such as recommended readings, analysis and teacher feedback, it would be impossible to actually assign credentials to this sort of free-for-all degree program.<br /><br />What is promising is that so much information is now freely available. This undoubtedly has led people to be able to teach themselves, such as the anonymous &quot;New Learner&quot; above. However, it must be remembered that much of the &quot;free&quot; information comes from paid professors and professionals. Their time is valuable and should not simply be expected without due compensation. <br /><br />Of course much of the compensation for the current online content is coming from the non-profit universities the creator of this post hopes to replace. Without these institutions, the knowledge available to us from a for-profit system would look drastically different. Personally, I believe that there are things we should learn that don&#39;t necessarily derive from a private sector interest, like democracy.Mr Stuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14693178664846708587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-87098923752583082432011-08-19T07:45:23.142-07:002011-08-19T07:45:23.142-07:00awesome idea it&#39;ll help people who don&#39;t h...awesome idea it&#39;ll help people who don&#39;t have reach to very good lecturers....:) <br />but they should it quickly...<br />GO GOOGLE!!!!ashish singhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07873066951070300606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-48367314437714610992011-02-10T05:11:13.253-08:002011-02-10T05:11:13.253-08:00Jeremy Martin said...
ONLY for the Philosophy ...Jeremy Martin said...<br /> ONLY for the Philosophy students - this might work ... NOT FOR any science / engineering major ......September 13, 2010 10:52 AM <br /><br />^WRONG!<br /><br />Top institutions like Columbia, NYU Poly, U of Illinois, and Lehigh already offer Master&#39;s degrees in Engineering. University of North Dakota offers several Bachelor&#39;s degrees in Engineering. <br /><br />Partnerships with established universities and businesses could provide vital lab experiences and in-person collaboration. I&#39;d like to see a University of Google Student Union in every global city, with all of the quirky characteristics that have made google office campuses so famous.<br /><br />Google University could be wonderful for people seeking accredited degrees in Engineering, Science, Math, Architecture, etc..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-36567456513719265672010-10-17T14:16:52.965-07:002010-10-17T14:16:52.965-07:00Great idea. We have started doing something like ...Great idea. We have started doing something like this (at a small scale) at: http://www.adamsoninstitute.org/moodle <br />Glad to hear that a big mover like Google is interested.<br /><br />Tom Adamson<br />Assistant Professor, Computer Game Design and Development,<br />Southern New Hampshire University.<br />SNHU.eduTom Adamsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14068902036576017631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-81460646272449672172010-09-25T11:50:14.321-07:002010-09-25T11:50:14.321-07:00The fact of the matter is we are converging toward...The fact of the matter is we are converging towards this everyday as we send more and more time on the internet. Here is a fact. University that use to teach mathematics out of a text book are now using online services to do the teaching for them. The teaching has now been taken out of the grad students hands and now have been placed by software that is accessed by the internet. What use to be teachers at university are no longer making up their own math problems and grading homework are now just sitting back and letting the software that is developed by some other do all the work. What the university&#39;s are not seeing is they are about to put them selves right out of business by just being lazy. Sorry but thats how I see it. NOW that all that is said , I really think this is the way to go. But why are our students having to purchase a membership to these websites when they are paying the university to do the job of teaching. Its time google or microsoft takes action on this. Lets let the university do research and take the teaching out of their hands. Thats what they want anyway. Google is already set up for this it just needs to organize and get accredited so we can now get that piece of paper. We have home schoolers for high school and we can have homes schoolers for college. The time has come we are all ready and are very willing. Lets get is going GOOGLE , Microsoftmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18320709322609210862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-43059167643523957122010-09-13T10:52:36.896-07:002010-09-13T10:52:36.896-07:00ONLY for the Philosophy students - this might work...ONLY for the Philosophy students - this might work ... NOT FOR any science / engineering major ......Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-26717407500563517972009-08-04T16:04:52.522-07:002009-08-04T16:04:52.522-07:00www.Teachertube.com is already there and we use i...www.Teachertube.com is already there and we use it daily to school several people that need higher learning.<br /><br />if google would just buy this out and keep all the teachers interested they would start a movement outside of the classroom.<br />give the teachers some sort of extra tax benefit or a per class bonus and it will spread like wildfire.<br />Kids learn differently now then they did 10 yrs ago and we will have people that are 30 yrs in the industry teaching 30 yr old methods waiting for thier retirement to kick in.<br /><br />Just a thought.<br /><br />By the way, i am a true student of google university.<br />i am now a Director of IT that has never taken a class in his life.<br />and i have several hours a day of google to thank for it.<br /><br />Thanks<br />The new learner..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-46211658514371399642009-06-14T11:18:27.345-07:002009-06-14T11:18:27.345-07:00I disagree strongly with most of the axioms of thi...I disagree strongly with most of the axioms of this post; there&#39;s little more that I can say, I&#39;m afraid!James Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11398225626981384404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-38839819521045145162009-06-08T11:43:43.200-07:002009-06-08T11:43:43.200-07:00I watch lectures on google all the time. My learni...I watch lectures on google all the time. My learning is self-directed and spans across politics, economics, philosophy, linguistics, religion, history, semantics, artificial Intelligence etc. <br /><br />I feel a little as if my learning is directed at some level by google and google video, but it&#39;s not immediately obvious if there&#39;s an emergent structure underneath that will support my studies, and provide a framework for earning... <br /><br />I think google university will be an open source effort in a very obvious way - I intend to go out and make educational documentaries and video lectures on current and relevant topics and then upload them to google video as part of my coursework... <br /><br />Once I&#39;ve uploaded five or ten interesting lectures, I think I&#39;ll edit them down (editing other referenced open source material into a final thesis and then upload it to youtube because it has a decent forum/commentary system. <br /><br />Ultimately my grade will be reflected in real terms by how many hits the thesis gets and I&#39;ll be able to gather commentary and stimulate debate through the use of the forum. <br /><br />In addition, I can add notes to the video if corrections are pointed out in the forums and add links to documents in google scholar as references and appendices etc. <br /><br />+++++<br /><br />It would behoove google to develop a &#39;google cirriculum&#39; which organizes video lectures, library resources, student theses&#39; and classes as forums for discussions using the system to help us by providing comprehensive study paths.<br /><br />We could then follow a path by ticking off each lecture in turn according to the learning path that interests us individually, tracking which lectures we&#39;ve watched, and keeping public or private notes in google docs. <br /><br />I think we ought to largely assess our own level of learning, and adjust it to fit our own individual cognitive styles. In this way studying becomes more modular and less institutional and prescriptive, allowing for productivity at a level which is comfortable. <br /><br />Assessment of work would be decentralized to institution funded satellites located in major universities, localized to accomodate different cultural needs and given full technical support by google tools. <br /><br />RichieRichiehttp://www.richardboase.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-67808183851848349292009-03-27T10:24:00.000-07:002009-03-27T10:24:00.000-07:00The notion that for-profit universities are "clear...The notion that for-profit universities are "clearly... more efficient" than non-profits begs the question "efficient at doing what?" The choices of the "informed consumer" begs the questions: who is the consumer (the parent, the student, the future employer, the society in general)? What are their goals? How do they predict what institutions might meet their goals (U.S. News rankings?)? <BR/><BR/>Universities have many different stakeholders with different goals, and different preconceptions and positions in society to protect. I have no doubt that if Google's people were to apply themselves to a University with broad human-development objectives, and adopted an evidence-based continuous quality improvement paradigm, they would quickly find that Scholar, Groups, and Blogger are just the beginning.Dosh Garnethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17292471017104800538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-54216520079040515872009-01-04T16:44:00.000-08:002009-01-04T16:44:00.000-08:00A friend of mine is looking into a concept of an a...A friend of mine is looking into a concept of an accredited online education that is free for it's students...and references Google University as a possible platform for it to be done. Check the link below for more information.<BR/><BR/>www.wewantfreecollege.comShannonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08598854669428455580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-58776423559272367522008-12-11T22:07:00.000-08:002008-12-11T22:07:00.000-08:00http://code.google.com/edu/ Link for Google Univ...http://code.google.com/edu/ Link for Google University.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-66994978994035042932008-12-01T22:09:00.000-08:002008-12-01T22:09:00.000-08:00Does anyone know the weblink to Google's Universit...Does anyone know the weblink to Google's University? I haven't been able to find it anywhere and wanted to learn more after hearing an interesting talk about it.<BR/><BR/>Thanks!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-65614522999321533532008-09-22T04:18:00.000-07:002008-09-22T04:18:00.000-07:00I hope to attend too if google have university, I ...I hope to attend too if google have university, I would like to learn on how their search engine rank all the websiteiCalvynwww.icalvyn.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-76572705966156970102008-08-20T14:30:00.000-07:002008-08-20T14:30:00.000-07:00Obviously the professor writing this idea is not f...Obviously the professor writing this idea is not familiar with research into distance and online learning. DL is less popular generally with students, has a far higher drop-out rate, and is difficult to run cost-effectively. That said, results can in some cases equal but rarely surpass classroom instruction. So problem one is that DL is very, very hard to do right. <BR/><BR/>Which brings us to problem two, for-profit learning has a very different character from traditional university learning. Both venues have their benefits and shortcomings. For-profit works best for meeting specified training objectives, non-profit works best for educating the whole person and creating a thinking populace capable of self-government. Going for-profit does not mean educational problems would be solved anymore than private enterprise has solved any our social or environmental or other problems.<BR/><BR/>That said, this is a clever idea and at some level I am sure the major players are tracking the potential market for innovative educational products.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-63317460850623488842008-04-10T15:43:00.000-07:002008-04-10T15:43:00.000-07:00Education is not always about learning a professio...Education is not always about learning a profession. I hope people would see that it's more about changing, becoming someone else. It should introduce you to a new world where you want to stay for a little while and learn more and more.<BR/><BR/>Universities should form students to become more sophisticated, analytic and reflected. They shouldn't be efficient but should inspire students to be the smartest and brightest. Universities has every opportunity to show students that their studies are fun.<BR/><BR/>Businesses should give (money and knowledge) back and encourage students to do their best. They're the one gaining on our education.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-77274299249970749992008-04-10T15:24:00.000-07:002008-04-10T15:24:00.000-07:00also, what if Life magazine started a university? ...also, what if Life magazine started a university? When I said I graduated from the University of Life to anyone, would they believe me?Jamessyboyhttp://www.xlweb.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-67793281981039185492008-04-10T15:20:00.000-07:002008-04-10T15:20:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13856379086748736377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-39540011835113752512008-01-13T01:38:00.000-08:002008-01-13T01:38:00.000-08:00I whole heartedly agree, as a student myself i can...I whole heartedly agree, as a student myself i can see much knowledge that can be gained from the tools Google has provided. Providing education on the internet does not have to be a sole source of learning. It could be for us autodidacts who enjoy points of interest without having to enroll in a full fledged university. Also giving students a platform of which they are familiar with could be a great way of sharing ideas about a certain classes from all over the country!Crankyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16895840539873293741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-60393062796683145072007-10-25T14:36:00.000-07:002007-10-25T14:36:00.000-07:00Huh! i don't want to finish the day with a back pa...Huh! i don't want to finish the day with a back pain and stiff neck. And to top this bad eye sight. The idea of attending the lectures in a classroon still excites me.Since it gives me an oppurtunity to interact with "Humans" from both the genders. At least i will shape out to be a social animal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-54145179011013850452007-09-14T19:46:00.000-07:002007-09-14T19:46:00.000-07:00I thought of this idea also on my drive into work ...I thought of this idea also on my drive into work today while listening to a Podcast about Google. Google is in the process of making readily available a vast array of knowledge. Why not leverage this fantastic tool to teach?<BR/><BR/>The earliest universities were built around their libraries. Google is the ultimate library. <BR/><BR/>I think this is an idea that should seriously be considered.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07914642527036095790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-13647736692732091092007-09-07T17:17:00.000-07:002007-09-07T17:17:00.000-07:00Google U. could be the perfect application of tech...Google U. could be the perfect application of technology to educate students. Do please put aside the idea of classes or seminars. Consider instead what graduates need to know and be able to do and unleash the technology to help them acquire those competencies. While you still need "faculty" you wouldn't have to have tenure or the same kinds of academic load.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com